We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
RICHARD DAWKINSAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
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Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility.
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If there is a God, it’s going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
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Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
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It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver.
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American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
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The less you think, the more you believe.
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.
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There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
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The majority of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all.
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.
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Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.
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Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don’t see you jumping out of buildings.
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The only watchmaker is the blind forces of physics.
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Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
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There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.
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The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it’s divisive and it’s dangerous.
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Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.
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The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.
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